Thank so much for the reply Aere. I'll have another shot at it
tomorrow.
I'm sure there's ways to do it. I can achieve the same result with
manual repartitioning, I know that.
My chief concern was the difference between what I read in the test
case and what I was actually seeing onscreen from the Lubuntu
installer. Seems to me that I should be able to follow the
instructions given in the test case and see the expected result with
my particular install.
Or is that too naive ??
Ron Mitchell
On 7-Sep-12, at 9:31 PM, Aere Greenway wrote:
Ron:
It seems there is a graphical display of the partitions it finds,
and you can drag the dividing line between two partitions.
I know I've done that when installing alongside Windows. But I
haven't had occasion to do that for a long time. It seems there was
an "Install alongside xxxxx" option.
Strictly speaking for myself, as a user, I almost always use the
manual partitioning option.
I set up a common (fat32) partition, which contains music &
pictures, which is mounted on each partition when it boots (Windows
as well).
Then I have two linux partitions - one for my new system, and one
for my old system. When I become confident with my new system, I
"transfer my flag" from the old linux partition to the new linux
partition.
When I install a newer system, I install it over the top of my old
linux partition.
The process repeats with each Linux release.
- Aere
On Sat, 2012-09-08 at 04:02 +0000, Ron Mitchell wrote:
The test case uri-001 for Lubuntu Amd64+Mac (build of Sept 7 2012)
differs from what I'm actually seeing on the screen as I attempt to
install. In this case I was attempting to install Lubuntu alongside
SuSE Linux 12 which was already installed. As I read it, I'm
supposed to be able to install Lubuntu alonside another operating
system, splitting hard drive space between them with a slider.
The Lubuntu installer provides no such option. It simply offers a
choice to either erase everything on the disk, or manually change
existing partions.
Wondering if I'm missing something. It seems to me that the test
case is written for an Ubuntu installation and parts of it do not
apply to Lubuntu.
For the time being, I'm reluctant to either pass or fail the test
case. Surely this issue has been raised before.
Any comments would be appreciated.
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Sincerely,
Aere
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